Dr. Rath Foundation

Dr. Mattias Rath worked with Dr. Linus Pauling on the development of orthomolecular research, which has evolved into what he calls "cellular therapy." Rath is controversial at the moment because he has insisted in Africa that AIDs can be cured with nutrients, which has aroused the ire of the medical professionals who are treating AIDs with pharmaceutical regimens and fear that his statements will cause people to stop or not start taking the drugs which they believe are necessary. There are heated arguments on both sides of this issue. Many alternative practitioners do treat AIDs as a nutrient-deficiency disease. Here are Rath's views on cancer:

 All human cells are surrounded by collagen fibres and connective tissue. In order to grow and expand, healthy cells need to break down this extra-cellular barrier that confines them. This process is essential for life and for this reason, cells produce and secrete various enzymes that digest connective tissue components, including collagen and elastin.

It is important that these enzymes, called matrix metalloproteinases or MMPs, be regulated by sets of activators and inhibitors so that the integrity of the connective tissue is never compromised.

Excessive disintegration of connective tissue accompanies pathology and once this disintegration occurs, infectious cancer cell microbes (including viruses) can invade tissues. In extreme cases, such as in cancer, the excessive production of digestive enzymes and the disintegration of collagen and connective tissue by cancer cells are the dangerous mechanisms by which these cells invade and spread to other organs.

In his Cellular Health Series book "Cancer", Dr. Rath documents his discovery that certain nutrients, including L-lysine, are powerful natural inhibitors of collagen-digesting enzymes.

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